Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

The law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws, the existing law is very rough.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.